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Exodus 38

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1 Ja ta tegi akaatsiapuust põletusohvrialtari, viis küünart pika ja viis küünart laia, neljanurgelise ja kolm küünart kõrge.

2 Ta tegi selle neljale nurgale sarved; sarved olid sellega ühest tükist; ja ta kardas selle vasega.

3 Ta tegi kõik altari riistad, tuhanõud, labidad, piserdusnõud, hargid ja sütepannid; kõik selle riistad ta tegi vasest.

4 Ta tegi altarile võrestiku, võrgukujulise töö vasest, ääre alla, altpoolt vaadates poole altarini.

5 Ta valas neli rõngast vaskvõrestiku neljale nurgale kangide asemeiks.

6 Ta tegi akaatsiapuust kandekangid ja kardas need vasega.

7 Ta pistis kandekangid rõngastesse altari külgedel; ta tegi selle laudadest õõnsakujulisena.

8 Ja ta tegi vaskpesemisnõu ja selle vaskjala nende teenistuses olevate naiste peeglitest, kes teenisid kogudusetelgi ukse juures.

9 Ja ta tegi õue: lõunapoolses küljes, keskpäeva pool, oli õuel sada küünart korrutatud linasest lõimest eesriideid,

10 nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

11 Nõndasamuti oli põhjapoolses küljes sada küünart eesriideid, nende kakskümmend sammast ja kakskümmend vaskjalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

12 Läänepoolses küljes oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid, nende kümme sammast ja kümme jalga; sammaste haagid ja põrgad olid hõbedast.

13 Idapoolses küljes, päikesetõusu pool, oli viiskümmend küünart eesriideid:

14 ühel pool oli viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga,

15 samuti oli teisel pool; ühel ja teisel pool õueväravat oli võrdselt viisteist küünart eesriideid, nende kolm sammast ja kolm jalga.

16 Kõik eesriided ümber õue olid korrutatud linasest lõimest.

17 Sammaste jalad olid vasest, sammaste haagid ja põrgad hõbedast, nende nupud hõbedaga karratud; kõigil õue sammastel olid hõbepõrgad.

18 Õuevärava kate oli kirjatud töö sinisest, purpurpunasest ja helepunasest lõngast ning korrutatud linasest lõimest, kakskümmend küünart pikk, laiusele vastavalt viis küünart kõrge, nagu muud õue eesriided.

19 Nende neli sammast ja neli jalga olid vasest, nende haagid hõbedast, nende nuppude kard ja põrgad samuti hõbedast.

20 Kõik elamu ja ümber oleva õue vaiad olid vasest.

21 See on elamu, tunnistuselamu kulude arvestus, mis tehti Moosese käsul; selle tegid leviidid preester Aaroni poja Iitamari juhatusel:

22 Betsaleel, Huuri poja Uuri poeg Juuda suguharust on valmistanud kõik, milleks Issand oli Moosesele käsu andnud,

23 ja koos temaga Oholiab, Ahisamaki poeg Daani suguharust, kui sepp ning osav kuduja ja kangakirjaja sinist, purpurpunast ja helepunast lõnga ning linast lõime kasutades.

24 Kõike kulda, mis oli kõigutusohvri kuld, mida tööks tarvitati kõigi pühamu tööde juures, oli kakskümmend üheksa talenti ja seitsesada kolmkümmend seeklit püha seekli järgi.

25 Ja hõbedat neilt, kes koguduse hulgast olid ära loetud, oli sada talenti ja tuhat seitsesada seitsekümmend viis seeklit püha seekli järgi,

26 üks beka pea kohta, see on pool seeklit püha seekli järgi kõigilt, kes astusid äraloetute hulka, kahekümneaastased ja üle selle, kuuesaja kolme tuhande viiesaja viiekümnelt.

27 See sada talenti hõbedat oli pühamu jalgade ja eesriide jalgade valamiseks, sada talenti sajaks jalaks, talent iga jala jaoks.

28 Aga sellest tuhande seitsmesaja seitsmekümne viiest seeklist tegi ta sammastele haagid, kardas nende nupud ja valmistas põrgad.

29 Kõigutusohvri vaske oli seitsekümmend talenti ja kaks tuhat nelisada seeklit.

30 Sellest tehti kogudusetelgi ukse jalad, vaskaltar ja selle küljes olev vaskvõrestik, kõik altari riistad,

31 ümberringi oleva õue jalad, õuevärava jalad, kõik telgi vaiad ja kõik ümberringi oleva õue vaiad.

   

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Ten

  

In most places in the Word, "ten" represents "all," or in some cases "many" or "much." The Ten Commandments represent all the guidance we get from the Lord in life; the ten horns on the beast of Revelation represent all power of falsity; the ten virgins with lamps in Matthew 25 represent all people of the church.

Yet in other places, ten, or especially a "tenth," signifies representing remnants, or tiny scraps of goodness preserved for the future. These can be the remnants of a church -- a few good people that can be built up into a new church. Or they can be tiny subconscious memories of love and joy which the Lord stores in each of us in early childhood, feelings He can use later to draw us toward a life of goodness and affection.

These two meanings seem nearly opposite, but they're actually not. Love is whole and indivisible, so that the tiniest feeling buried inside someone contains all the elements of the love it can become. In a similar way, a remnant of a church that has preserved that church's knowledge has everything it needs to grow into a new church. In a sense, then, those remnants are indeed "all," they're just a version of "all" that is still in a state of potential.

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9470. 'And wool of she-goats' means the good from this, that is to say, from the good of mutual love. The reason why 'wool of she-goats' means this good is that 'a she-goat' means the good of innocence in the external or natural man, 3519, 7840, and therefore 'wool' means the truth belonging to that good. However, since not truth but good is meant, the original language does not actually say 'wool of she-goats', only 'she-goats', as is also the case in other places, such as in the following words in Exodus,

All the skilled 1 women brought what they had spun, violet, purple, twice-dyed scarlet, [and] fine linen thread; and all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun she-goats. Exodus 35:25-26.

'Spinning she-goats' stands for producing things woven from the wool of she-goats.

[2] The fact that 'wool' means truth from a celestial origin, which in itself is good, is clear from places in the Word where the actual word is used, as in Hosea,

[Their mother has committed whoredom.] She said, I will go after my lovers, those giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen. Therefore I will return and take back My grain in its season, and I will snatch away My wool and My linen. Hosea 2:5, 9.

This refers to a corrupted Church, meant here by 'mother'. 'The lovers' with whom she is said to have committed whoredom are those who pervert forms of good and truths. 'Bread' and 'water' mean internal forms of the good of love, and the internal truths of faith; 'wool' and 'flax' mean external ones.

[3] In Daniel,

I saw until thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. Daniel 7:9.

This refers to the Church laid waste so far as every truth of faith was concerned, and then restored by the Lord, its having been completely laid waste being meant in the words 'thrones were placed'. 'The Ancient of Days' is the Lord in respect of celestial good as this existed in the Most Ancient Church, which was a celestial Church. In the Word that good is called 'ancient', its external truth being meant by clothing which was 'white as snow', and its external good by hair of the head which was 'like pure wool'. Similar words occur in John,

... in the midst of the seven lampstands one like the Son of Man. His head and hair were white, like white wool, like snow. Revelation 1:13-14.

[4] This kind of truth, being in itself good because it is the outward form of celestial good, is again meant by 'wool' in Ezekiel,

Damascus was your merchant in the wine of Helbon and the wool of Zachar. 2 Ezekiel 27:18.

And in Isaiah,

Though your sins are like twice-dyed, they will be as white as snow. Though they are as red as scarlet, they will be as wool. Isaiah 1:18.

[5] Because Aaron's garments represented the kinds of realities that belong to the Lord's spiritual kingdom, thus the spiritual realities that belong to truth, his 'holy garments' were made of linen and not of wool. For 'linen' is spiritual truth, whereas 'wool' is celestial truth, which in comparison is good. On this account it says in Ezekiel,

The priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, when they enter the gates of the inner court they shall put on the linen garments, and no wool shall come upon them. The linen turbans shall be on their heads, the linen undergarments shall be over their loins. Ezekiel 44:17-18.

The fact that Aaron's garments were made not of wool but of linen is clear from Leviticus 16:4, 32.

[6] From all this it becomes clear that 'linen' means spiritual truth, which is the truth of the good of faith, whereas 'wool' means celestial truth, which is the truth of the good of love. And since those endued with the latter kind of truth cannot be endued with the former, because the two are as different as the light of the sun is from the light of the stars, it was laid down that no one should wear a garment made of wool and linen mixed together, Deuteronomy 22:10-11. The fact that between what is celestial and what is spiritual there is such a difference, and that both cannot be together in one and the same person, see the places referred to in 9277.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, wise

2. The Hebrew word which Swedenborg, following the Latin version of Sebastian Schmidt, renders Zachar is not usually considered to be a proper name.

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.